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"Seeley Lake is where we have our summer cabin. It is only seventeen miles from the Blackfoot Canyon and not much farther from the Swan, a river beautiful as its name as it floats by the Mission Glaciers." |
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"To my father, the highest commandment was to do whatever his sons wanted him to do, especially if it meant to go fishing." |
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"But years ago I had known the river when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony remains with the waters of memory" |
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"Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise." |